Reflection: Awakening through Conflict (13 min)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 19 March 2016
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Guided Reflection: Awakening through Conflict (from a talk given on 2014-04-23) - (13 min)
“We live in a field where our emotions are an open loop – we affect each other. When we’re with someone who’s blaming, we tighten. Anger makes us tighten. When we’re with someone who’s open and caring, we become more open. It’s very, very powerful what’s possible when we put down the blame and we connect with our own being.”
A guided reflection: If we learn to release blame and deepen attention to our embodied experience, conflict can become a portal for more loving, alive relationships and awakening into the fullness of our being.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:08.0 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:30.0 | We live in a field where our emotions, it's an open loop, we affect each other. |
| 0:54.8 | We are with somebody that is blaming, we tighten. |
| 0:58.8 | Anger makes us tighten more with somebody that is open and caring, we become more open. |
| 1:06.8 | It is very, very powerful what is possible when we put down the blame and we connect with our own being. |
| 1:18.8 | I would like to give you a chance to just explore a little and know that this is a life practice. |
| 1:25.8 | You are getting a taste and that if you leave with a little more of a conscious commitment to letting conflict be an opportunity to wake up a portal, |
| 1:42.8 | there is a tremendous amount of freedom and opening that is possible. |
| 1:52.8 | So it comes sitting comfortably. |
| 2:00.8 | Take a moment as you are pausing to begin to invite your attention right into your body. |
| 2:08.8 | Feel yourself breathing, feel the sensations of your sitting posture. |
| 2:26.8 | You might let come to mind some situation where you feel that you get caught in a habitual way, where there is a sense of separation, reactivity, conflict with another person. |
| 2:50.8 | As I often say, it is best not to choose something that taps into deep sense of trauma. |
| 3:06.8 | This could be somebody at work, colleague or it is not so collegial, boss or employee. |
| 3:14.8 | It could be a friend where you just keep hitting up against the same patterning or a sibling, parent, child or partner. |
| 3:30.8 | The situation where you get caught in conflict and that you have a curiosity and a care that you would be more awake in this. |
| 3:40.8 | You feel that kind of intention right now. |
| 3:54.8 | So you bring the situation close in so that you sense a particular time setting where you get triggered. |
| 4:08.8 | And see the place you are in. |
| 4:16.8 | And notice whatever the look on the other person's face might be. |
| 4:22.8 | What kind of things they are saying. |
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